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18 years ago

Multiple Chip pin outs

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone had any idea about maintaining multiple pin outs ? I have a couple of developers who use PC based eval cards and a couple more actually using our real hardware. Is there any easy way in quartus to maintain two sets of pin outs for these devices rather than switching out copies of qsf files?

Thanks!

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    Altera_Forum
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    18 years ago

    You can move the pin location assignments from the .qsf to a separate Tcl file and use "source my_pin_locations.tcl" inside the .qsf. You can then use a separate Tcl file for each pin-out.

    I have seen issues with sourcing a Tcl file from within the .qsf, but it should work fine if you are not modifying the assignments.
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    18 years ago

    I think "switiching out copies of *.qsf files" by using the Quartus provided "revision" mechanism is the most comfortable solution, although is may require to duplicate some project changes to revisions. A more hierarchical "revision" control with a common set of settings could be a possible future improvement in my view, i'd call it design variant management.